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An account of the creation of new forms of life and intelligence in cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence that analyzes both the similarities and the differences among these sciences in actualizing life.

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It is assumed that universal grammar (UG) allows a given hierarchical representation to be associated with more than one linear order. This book proposes a restrictive theory of word order and phrase structure that denies this assumption.

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These readings carefully selected from the entire range of Viollet-le-Duc's work make available the historical insights and practical principles of one of the most imaginative, and inspiring architectural theorists of the modern era.

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Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition.

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Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.

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This second edition contains revised chapters taking into account recent research advances. More advanced exercises have been included, and "Part II The Prolog Language" has been modified to be compatible with the new Prolog standard. This is a graduate level text that can be used for self-study.

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The authors introduce this new approach to programming language design, describe its evolution and design principles, and present a formal specification of a metaobject protocol for CLOS.

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In this broad and provocative collection of original essays on artificial intelligence today, eighteen distinguished scholars set out to explain why and how certain discoveries about the human brain have or have not been used by the AI community, and whether the AI endeavor has increased out, understanding of human cognition.

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A new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.

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In this sweeping cultural history, James Flink provides a fascinating account of the creation of the world's first automobile culture. He offers both a critical survey of the development of automotive technology and the automotive industry and an analysis of the social effects of "automobility" on workers and consumers.

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The archive as a crucible of twentieth-century modernism and key for understanding contemporary art.

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A comprehensive introduction to current research on the psychology of concept formation and use.

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This text offers an understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, using shuffled memories similar to jumbled dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud.

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Traces the evolution of urban development codes and standards, examines their effect on city planning and design, and proposes alternatives that will encourage innovation.

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A computational framework, based on preference rules, for studying musical cognition.

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An interdisciplinary anthology of essays on animal cognition.

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A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.

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These two volumes bring together articles, commentaries, and excerpts by Nobel Prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani published from the late 1970s to 1989.

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These two volumes bring together articles, commentaries, and excerpts by Nobel Prize-winning economist Franco Modigliani published from the late 1970s to 1989. The 11 essays collected in Volume 4 focus on money and inflation and on stabilization policies for growth and unemployment. The 21 essays in Volume 5 cover saving and wealth, deficits, the real effects of inflation, and finance.

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An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environmental sustainability.

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New approaches to managing the commons, based on recent theoretical and empirical research.